Marc Van Den Berg joined the BBSA as Technical Director of Equipment (Bobsleigh) in the 2026 off season, in a shared role with the Canadian federation.

Van Den Berg spent the previous six years working with the US team, developing and optimising sleds and equipment packages that enjoyed incredible success on the world stage.

Highlights from his time with the US include winning three of the four Olympic medals not claimed by German sleds at the 2026 Olympic Winter Games in Milan Cortina, with American athletes winning gold and bronze in the women’s monobob and piloting Van Den Berg’s 2-man sled to bronze in the 2-woman event, as well as fourth in the 2-man competition behind a German clean sweep.

He enjoyed similar success at the last World Championships in Lake Placid, with monobob gold and bronze, 2-man and 4-man fourth and women’s fourth, fifth and sixth, and his sleds were regularly among the top challengers to the otherwise dominant German team across the latter stages of the last Olympic cycle.

His new role sees him lead a shared British and Canadian sled building, equipment optimisation and research and development programme, with the aim of giving both nations the best possible chance of winning Olympic medals in the French Alps in 2030 and in Park City in 2034.